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The nation has been taken aback by Jeremy Corbyn's success in the general election. What's more intriguing, however, is the extent to which pop music, specifically grime, gave him a path to political power.

While Corbyn may have been regularly mocked by mainstream media outlets, the Labour leader found one area of the media more than willing to lend him their ears. Days before polls opened, he appeared on the covers of heavy metal magazine Kerrang! (under the headline Take The POWER BACK!) and weekly music paper NME (“WE OFFER HOPE”), places usually reserved for the young and the beautiful. He is probably the first bearded, white-haired old man to grace the NME cover since the late and much-loved...